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I have a 5 months old cat (male), breed: Chartreaux, name: Charlie
I adopted him 2 months ago and i went with him for his first vaccine. All good, but my cat was kinda skinny and he ate not too much. I bought him vitamins and everything seemed better, but he was still on the skinny side.
5 days ago i went with him to a vet to give him his second vaccine, and they also did the rabies shot as well on the same day, because i was planning to leave my cat at a cat hotel for my vacation.
3 days ago i noticed that the cat couldn't get up and use his hind/rear legs, and his posterior side was shaky and he was falling on his sides while trying to walk. I panicked and i went to the vet with him and they gave him a cortico-steriod shot and they noticed that if you press on his spinal cord, at the middle of the spinal cord, the cat was crying, but there is absolutely no chance he suffered a physical injury, he lives in my apartment and he never jumped off things or did anything crazy.
2 days ago everything was worse, he was almost paralyzed, he can only move his eyes and ears, couldn't lift his head at all and he stopped eating and drinking water.
Yesterday i went with him at the vet and they kept him there, did some treatments, collected some blood samples and the analysis didn't say anything out of the ordinary (i have attached the results). They are suspecting FIP (the cat has no belly swelling, he is skinny) but they said there is no way you can say it for sure and from my own research over the internet I've read the same.
The vet told me that he will administrate him Interferon for humans, tomorrow to stop the virus from spreading and he will continue to treat his symptoms but he looked kinda hopeless and everyone is telling me that IF the cat has FIP, you cannot do much.
My question is: is there any way to know for sure if it is FIP or not? Did you hear about anything else that was similar to this? Any advice will be greatly appreciated by me and Charlie.
Thanks.
I adopted him 2 months ago and i went with him for his first vaccine. All good, but my cat was kinda skinny and he ate not too much. I bought him vitamins and everything seemed better, but he was still on the skinny side.
5 days ago i went with him to a vet to give him his second vaccine, and they also did the rabies shot as well on the same day, because i was planning to leave my cat at a cat hotel for my vacation.
3 days ago i noticed that the cat couldn't get up and use his hind/rear legs, and his posterior side was shaky and he was falling on his sides while trying to walk. I panicked and i went to the vet with him and they gave him a cortico-steriod shot and they noticed that if you press on his spinal cord, at the middle of the spinal cord, the cat was crying, but there is absolutely no chance he suffered a physical injury, he lives in my apartment and he never jumped off things or did anything crazy.
2 days ago everything was worse, he was almost paralyzed, he can only move his eyes and ears, couldn't lift his head at all and he stopped eating and drinking water.
Yesterday i went with him at the vet and they kept him there, did some treatments, collected some blood samples and the analysis didn't say anything out of the ordinary (i have attached the results). They are suspecting FIP (the cat has no belly swelling, he is skinny) but they said there is no way you can say it for sure and from my own research over the internet I've read the same.
The vet told me that he will administrate him Interferon for humans, tomorrow to stop the virus from spreading and he will continue to treat his symptoms but he looked kinda hopeless and everyone is telling me that IF the cat has FIP, you cannot do much.
My question is: is there any way to know for sure if it is FIP or not? Did you hear about anything else that was similar to this? Any advice will be greatly appreciated by me and Charlie.
Thanks.